Ethnic Results of the Forum of Private
Business
Private Businesses and Their Banks Year 2000 Survey

Since 1986 The Forum of Private Business has been researching
the subject of banks and small businesses and since 1998 this has included
a section on ethnicity.

In the Forum of Private Business 1998 report we were
able to prove, with the help of the University of Nottingham, that ethnic
businesses as a group were not treated as well as an equivalent white
business.

In addition to the Forum of Private Business ethnic
member responses and also the banks who participated in the survey, the
South Asian Development Partnership kindly agreed to participate in the
survey into the relationship between ethnic business owners and their
banks, by posting out the survey to their members.

The ethnic data content in the 2000 bank survey will
be published on Tuesday 27th March at a Press Conference in The Hinton
Room, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, 1 Birdcage Walk, Westminster,
commencing 10.30 for 11.00 am.

Anyone wishing to join us on 27th March should contact
us as soon as possible - contact details are given above.